RUSSIA: Reply to Britain

From the
desk of Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires in London, to
the desk of Georg Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Commissar for Foreign
Affairs in Moscow, is about 1,600 miles as the crow flies. By means of
the wireless, the brusque message (TIME, Dec. 1) of the British
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Austen Chamberlain, sped across
the intervening space in next to no time; and the messages of Georg
to Austen sped back by the same route. All this took place within a few
days.